A Robot
named Xiaoyi have cleared China’s medical licensing examination in August of
this year, reported south China morning post. The robot is aptly named Xiaoyi which means ‘little
doctor’ and completed the test in fraction of time as compared to his human competitors.
In practice
run, Xiaoyi could only score 100/600 and the passing score is minimum of 360.
Disappointed
by the practice test score, Xiaoyi decided to study hard and was trained to absorb
the contents of dozens of medical textbooks, 2 million medical records, and
400,000 articles to develop the kind of reasoning needed to be a doctor, The
Beijing News reported on the weekend.
It passed
the test with a score of 456.
The first
robot to ever pass a medical licensing examination is developed by iFlyTek, in
coordination with Tsinghua University.
The robot
was able to identify words, link between words and sentences to develop a capacity
to reason, but did not do well in question pertaining to patients’ cases.
So, the
healthcare industry can be rest assured that Xiaoyi will actually not replace
physicians and health care providers in current setting. But, it can certainly
be useful in assisting physicians to interpret the signs and symptoms faster
and making suggestions.
The robot
will officially be launched in March 2018 and the company vision is, it can
help patients in remote Chinese villages, which are always short of primary
care physicians.
China has
already opened the world’s first artificial intelligence based treatment
center.
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